Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Numbers 6:1-8
by: Jennifer Lewis Berg.
Why was it essential to God that vows of separation be taken? A Nazirite vow set someone apart from society in a few ways: first, refraining from partaking of anything from the vine (refraining from one of the joys of life); second, refraining from cutting hair (turning from vanity and pride and adopting an attitude of shame); third, refraining from having anything to do with death (letting the things of death take care of themselves and embracing the living). Don’t we also need to separate ourselves from the temptations that pull us away from God?